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In 2009, UGA scientists identified five "super ornamentals"—plants that showed high rates of contaminant removal when exposed in gas-tight glass jars to common household VOCs, such as benzene (present in cigarette smoke) and toluene (emitted from paints and varnishes).

A Superhero Scrubs the Air: The Mighty Houseplant Gwendolyn Bounds 2011

For the study, researchers rounded up 28 popular houseplants and put them in gas-tight jars.

Which houseplants are best for better air quality? 2009

For the study, researchers rounded up 28 popular houseplants and put them in gas-tight jars.

Which houseplants are best for better air quality? 2009

But he went up a ladder against a gale of ventilation — a ladder that was encased in a kind of gas-tight fire escape — and ran right athwart the great forward air-chamber to the little look-out gallery with a telephone, that gallery that bore the light pom-pom of German steel and its locker of shells.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

The sweeter egg-aerated cakes are held up largely by the coagulated egg proteins, which form a more gas-tight film around the gas cells than starch does, and therefore shrink as the gas within cools and contracts.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Augmented vision picked out the recessed pressure-sealed gun ports, cleverly concealed and shielded -- but he did not see the camouflaged bunker door until it opened before him, revealing a gas-tight airlock.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

The English discovery of sparkling Champagne depended on the fact that they had begun plugging bottle necks with compressible gas-tight cork instead of cloth, and that they had especially strong bottles that could withstand the inner pressure the glass strength came from manufacturing with hot coal fires rather than wood fires.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The sweeter egg-aerated cakes are held up largely by the coagulated egg proteins, which form a more gas-tight film around the gas cells than starch does, and therefore shrink as the gas within cools and contracts.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The English discovery of sparkling Champagne depended on the fact that they had begun plugging bottle necks with compressible gas-tight cork instead of cloth, and that they had especially strong bottles that could withstand the inner pressure the glass strength came from manufacturing with hot coal fires rather than wood fires.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

When the paste dries, you will have a lasting, gas-tight seal.

9. Pest control using fumigants 1996